agalunar

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by agalunar 4y ago
Small typo correction for anyone trying to search or learn more about the term: it's "provenance", not "providence".
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by agalunar 4y ago
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "knowing how I know what I know". That could refer to "knowing the physiology of my brain", which is what you seemed to be referring to. But it could also refer to "explainin
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by agalunar 4y ago
I feel like you're attacking a straw man. I don't think anyone believes an artificial intelligence needs to know how it itself works to be intelligent. On the other hand, we'd like to know how it works. I mean, why do we do
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by agalunar 4y ago
UTC times are unique: when a positive leap second is inserted, 23:59:60 is added; when a negative leap second is inserted, 23:59:59 is skipped. Unix timestamps, on the other hand, are not unique.
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by agalunar 4y ago
I believe Bell's theorem specifically rules out local hidden variable theories, not all hidden variable theories.
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by agalunar 4y ago
Very neat! This reminds me of Braitenberg vehicles. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braitenberg_vehicle
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by agalunar 4y ago
> "Incentives don’t matter" is usually a bad take. I didn't say that I thought incentives don't matter. (I was trying to say that I thought IP law isn't an especially good way to incentivize creativity, and that
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by agalunar 4y ago
Speaking as to my own opinion now: I'm skeptical that "encouraging creators by offering protections" is much more than a rationalization. (And I'm not sure whether it's historically accurate, although that's be
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by agalunar 4y ago
This was imprecise on my part; I apologize. I explained what I meant by "having" in a daughter comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35299668 ) and made a clarification regarding sharing in another ( https:
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by agalunar 4y ago
I believe I understand what you're saying, but I feel we're talking about different things, so I may have miscommunicated my point. I'm not talking about ownership as recognized or enforced by people (in fact, I never used th
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by agalunar 4y ago
I'm not entirely sure what point you're making. That's not physical law in the same sense – nothing compels you to take something from me (or prevents you from taking something from me if you're sneaky or strong enough,
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by agalunar 4y ago
If I have a physical object, you can't also have that physical object. That's natural in the sense that it follows from natural law (physics). If I have an idea, or a digital copy of something, you can also use that idea, or also
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by agalunar 4y ago
For anyone interested in a professional typographer's thoughts on this sort of thing, Jonathan Hoefler commented on Word-As-Image for Semantic Typography [1] and I believe those comments are applicable to DS-Fusion as well. [1] https:
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by agalunar 4y ago
The point is that love isn't just a linguistic phenomenon – it's some other internal phenomenon or experience that happens to cause linguistic expression (among other forms of expression or behavior modulation.) Love is something
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by agalunar 4y ago
ah, sorry! right – the type constructor and fmap together make up a functor. I meant functors where the objects being mapped aren't types, but type inhabitants, and the morphisms being mapped are not arrows between types, but arrows be
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by agalunar 4y ago
I might be a counterexample to the claim that "this is pedantic and the differences they're mentioning are meaningless in practice". I learned about functors in uni and only later took a look at Haskell. I was genuinely very
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by agalunar 4y ago
> "Must have had been" is simply wrong; in your examples, it should always be "must have been". As a matter of prescription, maybe, but as a matter of description? I think it's interesting. It is meaningful and i
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by agalunar 4y ago
To my ears, there's a difference! I am watched. (present passive) I was watched. (past passive) I have been watched. (present perfect passive) I had been watched. (past perfect passive) I am b
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by agalunar 4y ago
Sure! Using "had been" rather than "(has) been" indicates that something may no longer be the case, e.g. "she's been well (and still is)" versus "she had been well (but is not necessarily still well)&
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by agalunar 4y ago
Mm, I think it could come up quite naturally as "she must have been being watched" in something like: Two detectives are watching security film. DETECTIVE 1 And then from 9:07 to 9:14 she started acting very cautiously,
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by agalunar 4y ago
But that is a lie. It's deceptive and misleading. The code states what the computer will do; nobody is contesting that or claiming otherwise. They were pointing out that, although part of what `pi = 3` communicates to a person (that
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by agalunar 4y ago
This is a good point, and I'm not arguing with it, but I don't think the words "code cannot lie" are the right way to express it. Code can deceive even if, definitionally, the code states what the computer will do. So
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by agalunar 4y ago
The English verb system can be devilishly difficult, my favorite example being this "conjugation" of watch : She must have had been being watched. = It must be the case that someone watched her for some duration of time prior t
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by agalunar 4y ago
Can you provide any examples? In my (limited) experience, linguists have been just as aware of pragmatics, social convention, or current culture as anyone else. (And lexicographers are even more attuned than most.)
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by agalunar 4y ago
Ought to be "to guide you on your way", "helps you reach the other side", "for they will lead you", "and help you", since "ye" is the plural nominative (not accusative). I grew up using arch
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by agalunar 4y ago
I disagree with The Bitter Lesson, or at least one particular example that the essay gives: chess programming. Modern engines would crush Deep Blue with fewer resources and even without NNUE, and this is because of specific search technique
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by agalunar 4y ago
Listening for any span of a few seconds, it sounds quite nice! but beyond the length of a phrase or so, it just does not make any sense. It reminds me a bit of that project to "create Beethoven's tenth" using an AI that I hea
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by agalunar 4y ago
> I could just as easily say... And I think you're right! It seems very likely to me that that happens. Playing devil's advocate for myself, however: the comment was not uncharitable because it did not attribute intent. Someone
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by agalunar 4y ago
The observation has nothing to do with the correctness or goodness of the opinion. The intention of the comment was to point out that this is different from defending free speech; it's simply wanting people to listen to you. (And I don
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by agalunar 4y ago
Within the United States, there are at least ten protected classes, including race, sex, and old age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group

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